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Well to be fair doing maths I think - which might be stressful for;) non-maths teachers!

I am a bit doubtful about this guy's facts. Mike Stroud and Randolph Fiennes knew how much food they had and how many calories they were burning on their way to the South Pole. My memory is that they found they were burning 7000+ when their sled only had enough for 6000 a day. I am not sure...

To continue the autonomic metaphor I wouldn't hold any breath. This idea has been going for nearly twenty years and the best they could do was: “The first trial was designed to assess the safety of this new device, and we were fortunate to have seen some efficacy in this 14-patient trial of...

It must have been your gravitas that misled me!

Interesting to compare the way people support their claims that NICE was biased. Sometimes in a GP journal citing the Romanian Journal of Experimental Psychotherapy (or some such). Sometimes in the Lancet citing a website thread from a patient organisation whose chairman (?) is a...

The criteria are designed to indicate how medical personnel can identify ME, not as a full description of ME. The two things are quite different. Criteria for identification often do not include many common features of an illness because they do not discriminate or are not defining for the...

The editor mentioned that he had consulted with members of the editorial board. That I: EDITORIAL BOARD Dr Luke Allen, Department of Clinical Research, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Prof. Carolyn Chew-Graham, School of Primary, Community and Social Care, Keele University Dr...

I don't really understand what this paper is trying to do. Diagnostic criteria are designed to distinguish people with a condition from those without it. To judge the usefulness of criteria you presumably need to look at both groups and see what the sensitivity and specificity is. As far as I...

I suspect the editor thought it was a good piece of NICE-bashing and standing up for GP rights. I think they may have unpublished it when I raised the ethical issues over treatment of children. Stepping outside NICE guidelines is not necessarily something reprehensible but when it comes to...

The paper is published in something called In Vivo I have never heard of. The huge range of highly technical papers published makes it look as if this may be where you publish stuff the real journals don't take.

The list of tests looks almost as much a mess as the symptoms analysis. The problem is that we have no idea who gets referred to this centre and probably not what tests would show in the asymptomatic population.

No it doesn't, because you have done the study back to front. To clarify things you need to do a population cohort study with blinded objective testing for pathology is gold standard. This looks like an extreme version of the concerns I have had about DecodeME - which I now think for DecodeME...

I received an email from the editor saying the article had been unpublished, but giving no analysis or apology. I think there is a strong groundswell of opinion amongst the 'chattering' GP class that would support the article - really not so very different from the sort of disinformation...

As I say, I don't know the rules, but sure it is very problematic. As is including a bit on Christians with a lady priest and the mention of the daughter's illness. I actually worry that this lady has a sort of 'Dr Munchhausen syndrome'. She may need help before she causes a lot of harm. But I...

I have mentioned the website to the editor of the journal. He emailed me asking to speak on the phone but my hearing does not make that realistic so I suggested he emailed his thoughts. Nothing so far.

It gives sources for the Phil Parker ASA complaints (page 7 of the thread)

I found EzzieD's post on Encounters with Doctors:thumbsup:

I don't know how the rules work these days but I would certainly think the GMC should be concerned about doctors behaving like this. I gather Phil Parker had complaints previously - I don't know if anyone remembers the details?

It is interesting to look at the editor's blog on BJGP Life etc. He likes to make political points - although it was not clear to me exactly what they are. I see that one of the positive comments (the only one?) comes from a GP with an 'eco' tag. (Nothing wrong with being eco but I sense a sort...

No problem.